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Discord seems the most likely, it matches the subreddit model and a lot of Reddit communities already have a discord.

Obviously Discord is chat focused so not a one-to-one replacement but I am not sure that the younger generations will care.

Plus there is the possibility of discord adding a Reddit/forum like feature, since they already have the mindshare.

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Please god no. So much info is already getting dumped to discord and nowhere else making searching or archiving impossible, we don't need more of that.

that's part of the appeal nowadays, it seems websites and apps don't see the point of making themselves freely searchable anymore

This is a selling point of Discord. The ability to have a conversation without "researchers" being able to search for it for decades.

For many of us, Discord’s model is an anti-pattern.

Try searching for something when you don’t recall where you said it (dc server or DM)

Search the .CSVs yourself?

Doesn't Discord keep the data forever? And potentially sell it to "researchers"?

Discord no doubt keeps every conversation ever typed on their servers. they might toss out something huge like a movie file but text compresses -very- well.

Sending something to discord is like sending it to /dev/null except that it is also diverted into the mailbox of Big Brother, with you having only very limited access to it on their whim.

> Discord seems the most likely

Reddit is about discovering content. How would you discover anything on Discord? Is there a trending list to see the top messages? Is there a way to list Discord communities so you can discover ones matching your interest?

I'm at a lost to how the two are similar in any way except for the "young generations" use them both.

I doubt anyone actually used the front page to discover things, most likely they will stick to a handful of subreddits.

I use the "Home" and the "Popular" tabs every day to discover things on reddit. I can't be alone with this

I use /r/all exclusively. I have an account and subscribe to subreddits, but I never go to the home screen. I do check some subreddits directly. Otherwise just /r/all.

There are dozens of us.

My partner scrolls through the popular section nightly reading interesting things and chuckling at memes. I think you're out of touch with how many people use Reddit in this casual, low investment way.

They still need the content creators to create :) which I think they have done a good job of at least creating FOMO of top posts gathering monitory props.

the vast majority of reddit users today do not do anything beyond scroll through default subreddits and the front page, people who curate their own experience to ONLY be what they selected are an extreme minority.

You can search for public servers in the Discord app by keyword, but not for specific posts across all servers. It's more comparable to Reddit but without the frontpage, or structured posts.

i'd argue it's closer to slack than reddit

I disagree. A lot of other people are pointing out the discoverability problem (which I agree is an issue), but I think the medium just isn't comparable.

Chat is ephemeral and it there's a certain amount of participation expected, where as Reddit content strikes a nice balance of changing frequently, but not instantaneous and, for most users, it's a passive activity. To put it another way, most people aren't doom-scrolling on a discord server.

It's also linear. Reddit has hierarchical reply/conversation trees. Even Facebook has that to some degree. Discord doesn't.

This, and also that chat platforms don't really have a crowd voting system. The thing I like about HN is that people can vote on content to have it promoted or demoted. Obviously this has its own issues, but I'm not aware of any big social platforms that do this. Twitter kind of does, but it functions a bit different.

Discord already has forums.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...

Tbf Discord forums are so catastrophically badly designed in terms of UI that they're pretty much unusable.

Ultimately if you want good discussion you need the same layout that Reddit and HN have, with indented comments and easily branching chains. Otherwise it's just a chat masquerading as a forum thread which is useless.

The best UI would probably be a mixture of a forum and reddit. A fourm is a much superior model because it lacks upvotes/downvotes and is chronologically ordered, but lacks branching and chains that you describe. Reddit currently is being used more similarly to the forum culture than anything else.

they could be made better though if reddit's death seems imminent because of a beancounter incursion.

I hope this is not the case. In my experience, Discord has always been clunky, very slow, and truly unmanageable (from a user’s perspective).

Discord ties together Reddit, YouTube, Twitch and other web communities too: podcasts, webcomics, Patreon.

Only issue I’m having with it is discoverability of new communities.

Absolutely not. Discords UX is a hot mess for its intended use case, absolutely no way it is good enough to flex to being a Reddit.

Discord already has a forum feature, it’s just rarely used.

Discord stopped being cool when it started censoring subs for wrongthink, about 4 years ago.

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